My new laundry room!!!

It's finally finished (well almost.) After putting up beadboard about 6 months ago we finally put the cabinets in this past weekend and since we didn't measure properly we had to buy a new washer & dryer. Not exactly what we wanted to spend our $$ on but I really do love them!! If someone would have asked me 10 years ago if I ever thought I'd be this excited about a laundry room or a new washer/dryer I would have laughed in their face. Someone will have to hold me back the day we get a new vacuum! ;-)

Here are some pics. The reason I say it's *almost* done is because I still need to decorate :-) The fun part!!

I'm back!

Well I've been back for about 5 days now but am finally getting back into the swing of things. Two days after I got back from Hawaii we got about 6 inches of snow. It was a heavy dose of reality.

Steph & I had such a great time and we really wished the rest of our family could have met up with us there (wishful thinking - but hey we can dream, right?) We got lots of sister time in and I am so thankful we had that time together.

I missed Andrew like crazy and I swore he grew a foot while I was gone and learned about 100 new words. He had some great bonding time with his Daddy and I am also thankful they had that time together. I think they were both ready for Mommy to come home though. I came home to Andrew trying to put Blake into time out. Too funny!!

Well, here is a photo off of our Lanai. Aloha!

Our Easter Day

We had a nice Easter here with lots of sunshine that thankfully melted the little bit of snow we had on the ground.

Andrew woke up to find the Easter Bunny had left a trail of jelly beans (aka bunny poop) to his Easter basket. He said, "The Easter Bunny pooped all over my floor!" If anyone asks him if the Easter Bunny came. He says, "Yes and he pooped all over my floor!" He told the Dr. that the other day in fact.

We had friends over for lunch and an Easter Egg hunt. The kids had so much fun hunting for eggs and riding the quad, tractor and Grave Digger in the backyard. Here are some pictures from the day!

Dyeing Easter Eggs

Okay, first let me say... Yes, I forgot to buy the cups to dye the eggs in. So, we had to use big plastic cups. My bad but it still worked out! Andrew had fun watching the eggs come out different colors. Here are some pictures. Enjoy!

Happy Easter from Nana & Papa!

We went to the Dr. yesterday afternoon because Andrew has been coughing a lot at night and when we drove into our driveway a big white box was sitting on our doorstop. Andrew got really excited when he saw it and kept asking if he could have his surprise. :-)

Here are some pictures of him ripping into all his goodies. He was very happy to see the carrot filled with candy and he absolutely loves Pez candies (what kid doesn't?) But his absolutle favorite item in the package was definitely the MONSTER truck! He set up his signs and ramp and crash cars and just played and played with it. We even brought it to the table when he ate dinner! Thanks Nana & Papa! Oh, I had to throw in a photo of the mess those packing peanuts made - you can always count on Nana for those!

So Andrew had a great Thursday opening all his "Easter surprises" as he calls it. You'll be happy to know the first thing out of his mouth this morning was "Mommy, I wanna go downstairs and play with my tractor & monster truck!"